Dragonfly · Atomship

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 9 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DRAGONFLY · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 18 sections: 111 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-111.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIFACXAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dragonfly?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Dragonfly hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dragonfly?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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